noun:

• the system in government offices and business corporations in which draft proposals are prepared by someone in charge of the matter and circulated for collective deliberation and final approval by particular (designated) officials or executives - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• management; administration
• cutting up and serving food
• cut and fill (e.g. earthwork)

noun:

• campfire (usually large, and for gathering and singing, etc. around)

noun:

• health and longevity; enjoying a long and healthy life being untouched by disaster - obscure term - four character idiom ➜ 息災延命

noun:

• dish of simmered salmon head, soybeans, vegetables, and leftovers (popular in Tochigi Prefecture and surrounds) ➜ 酢憤り

noun:

• box lunch (containing rice and 10-15 small portions of fish, meat, and vegetables)

noun:

• Chinese-style spare ribs (esp. pork, also beef and lamb), breaded and fried - From Chinese "páigǔ"

expression:

• not distinguishing between what's good and bad; miso and shit are the same [literal] - idiom ➜ 味噌

noun / ~する noun:

• stripping a samurai of clothes and swords and exiling him naked (Edo period punishment)

noun:

• the five Ws and one H (who, what, when, where, why and how)

noun:

• difficult, dirty, and dangerous (work) - from きつい・汚い・危険
• apartment with three bedrooms and a kitchen

expression:

• Dislike China, Hate Korea; publishing genre of anti-Chinese and Korean books and magazines

noun / ~の noun:

• government and people; government and private sector; public and private sector

adverb:

• for millennia and millennia; for years and years; forever and ever - archaism

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:

• ignorant and illiterate; uneducated and illiterate; uneducated and illiterate person - sensitive - four character idiom

noun:

• two-sword school; style of fencing with one sword in each hand ➜ 二天一流
• liking both alcohol and sweets; person who likes both liquor and sweets
• bisexuality - colloquialism
• player who can play as both pitcher and fielder - Baseball term

noun:

• water and sky
• Varuna; Vedic god of water and sky (adopted into Buddhism as god of water and protector of the west)

noun:

• oyakodon; chicken and egg on rice
• sexual relationship with both a mother and daughter - vulgar - slang

noun:

• paper and sacred sakaki branches cut and mixed with rice to scatter before the gods

noun:

• Theaceae; family of flowering plants comprising the camellias and other shrubs and trees

noun:

• Japanese-Spanish (gen. for translations and dictionaries); Japan-Spain (e.g. intercountry trade and relations)

noun:

• style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance - archaism ➜ 唐楽

noun:

• style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance - abbreviation - archaism ➜ 左方の楽

noun:

• style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance - obscure term ➜ 唐楽

noun:

• Izanagi; male deity who fathered Japan and the sun, moon, and storm gods ➜ 伊弉冉尊